Posts made in October, 2012

This is the first of ten installments about my artistic journey I like to call, “The Numbers.” (To read the rest of this series, click here.
Along with my big hiking goal, I’ve got a few artistic goals as well. One of them is to create the hike’s number using material found on the hike. I got this idea while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2011. When big milestones are reached, like mile 100, 500, 1000, etc, it is common for a hiker to write the mileage in the trail using rocks, sticks, flowers, etc. One thru hiker I met made a mile marker every 100 miles for...

With visions of kaleidoscopic colors and other-worldly-esque textures still on my mind from my jaunt around Paulina Lake two weeks ago (Hike#9), I wanted to go back and explore more of the dozens of miles of trails found in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument.
With a hiking partner in tow, we decided on hitting a section of the Peter Skene Ogden National Scenic Trail. Named after one of the great explorers of the West (who also has Ogden, Utah named in his honor), the trail runs nine miles along the northern side of Paulina Creek, from Ogden Group Camp Trailhead to the shores of Paulina...